 Good morning, you guys. Welcome back to another Apple's NTR's vlog. Today is Monday, August 8th, and I'm here just a little bit past seven o'clock. I just found this adorable little drawing of a rat on my desk. How cute is that? So it is week four officially of school, first quarter, which to me is crazy because we only have five weeks left until fall break, which I'm really excited about. I don't know what we're going to do yet. I think we might go camping. I need to look into it. I think I'm going to make that one of my goals this week is to look into plans for fall breaks. So I'm going to put that on my little to do this. I got this little desk like pad like years ago at TJ Maxx or Home Goods or something. And I hardly ever use it, but I pulled it out this year and I've been keeping it like up here by my computer. And it's actually been pretty helpful because there's like a to-do list. And then there's like a weekly place where you can write things. So I've been taking like my school bulletin and I've been just filling out like only the ones that I need to be at. Like I know I have a team lead meeting on Wednesday at seven twenty. So early, which sucks because I have to drop my kid off at seven thirty. So like what do I do with him for the extra ten minutes? Luckily I have a really amazing teammate who has her own children and one of her bigger like older kiddos will take him down to school. That's just one of the many parks of your kid going to your school. Also just wanted to pop in here and let you guys know that I do have discount code for Zimp Optical. If you guys are interested in any of the glasses that I wear in any of my videos, they're always linked down in the description box below and you can get a discount code. It is linked down there if you're interested in ordering any glasses for yourself. So anyway, I'm going to put on this call my favorite campsite because I think we want to go camping for fall break either the first or second week. I'm not sure yet but I would like to go for like four nights, maybe even five nights. It would be so much fun to go camping either that or go up to my in-laws cabin. I think that would be a really fun time. Go fishing and just enjoy staying in Arizona for fall break. Maybe even drive up to the Grand Canyon would be kind of fun. So anyways, it is Monday and today is actually our first day using Mystery Science. The kids have never, well the kids this year, most of them have used it because at the end of last year our third grade decided to part-menalize and so the third grade science teacher started using Mystery Science and so the last whole quarter of the school year of the some of the kids I have this year got to experience Mystery Science. So a lot of them kind of already know how it goes but today will be our very first day using Mystery Science and so it's gonna be kind of a learning curve you know expectations, routines, things like that. They're all kind of new and different but hopefully it'll be, it should be fine. I have to get the kids notebooks passed back out. I did grade a bunch of notebooks last week and actually entered my first two grades of the school year which sounds kind of crazy especially because it's the fourth like last week was the third week but to be honest with you like I wasn't grading anything the first two weeks of school especially the first three days and then the first five real five days. No I'm not grading anything so anyway I'm gonna sit here I'm gonna make sure that I have everything prepped and ready to go. I have some things printed out that I'm gonna have to pass out to the kids. One of the school supplies that I have my students bringing this year is a small binder and I'll show you why. So because I use Mystery Science Generation Genius and I I'm pretty much designing my own curriculum at this point I do have a lot of like handouts that I want the kids to be able to hold on to and keep and part of that is through Mystery Science. They have to hold on to a couple of pages because they go back to them periodically and so what I decided to do was have every student bring a binder and it didn't have to be a big one it they could have been like a half inch binder but then pages like these that come from Mystery Science that they're like referring back to periodically I decided to just start copying them with holes in them and then that way the kids can keep them inside of their binders and then they can flip back to them when they need and then when it's time to turn things in they can take everything out staple it together and then they can turn it in as a bundle. Things like this that they're going to be filling out and then like as a team doing stuff like obviously I didn't punch the holes in but for other things I figured it would be smart to just keep it all in a binder. Folders can get really messy and they don't really know how to use the brackets very well so I felt like the binder would be better plus the binder can act as like a moving desk they can use that as a clipboard and they have their little like decorative thing in the front and I just like having binders I think that they're a lot more sturdy and they're going to keep things a lot safer inside so and then I also just have I always have like a model version so I have my binder which I need to decorate but like starting today and I always keep in the binder what they should have in their binder so it's kind of like a model for how to stay organized. I used to be at an avid school and avid is really big on binders and like color-coded folders and things like that to keep yourselves organized so I just like the binder idea luckily I'm pretty sure every student has a binder and if they don't have a binder I am able to go and snag them one from downstairs but as of right now all of my students have a binder so that's positive. So I need to put these student notebooks back in my student notebook storage and then I'm just gonna have I'm gonna get everything pulled up for the day and then I'm gonna head down to bus duty and then the day is going to get started. So another amazing resource that I love using in science is boom cards and it is this really awesome interactive like vocabulary concept like flashcards website and I just really like it because it's interactive engaging and fun for the kids and it makes practicing information content and vocabulary so much more fun let me show you what it looks like. So you set up your classes just like you would google classroom or any other like you can import your students from google and then when you click on these so you can purchase these boom card decks just like you would on tpt basically you purchase points and then you can spend your points on boom card decks but basically like this is when I bought years ago and it has them like thinking getting them thinking about rocks and then so they just click through these are nice choose what to do sometimes the cards have like vocal recordings so it's helpful for your um english language learners or your really um lower readers and the kids can click on each one they listen or read and then they answer a series of questions and it's really cool like this isn't my favorite one this is a good one to start with but like right now I have all of these boom card decks and I just love them like this one is on the earth spheres so I'm probably going to assign it and you can assign it to all three classes you can assign it to one at a time it's just really fun and engaging and I love using it as a warm up so when the kids come into my classroom instead of like getting started right away I have this 10 minute warm up period where the kids will do something quietly on their own it gives kids the opportunity to use the restroom fill up their water bottles it gives me the opportunity to take attendance for that block and then like you know sort out any other issues before I start teaching that way there's no interruption when I start teaching um link on google classroom so it is a nice period of you know independent work time where I can get some stuff done they can get some stuff done and it eliminates the interruptions during my teaching time so I think I might get them on boom cards today um I think it might be a good idea which means I need to make sure that that link is in google classroom because I still have quite a few kiddos that don't know how to get links even though we've practiced it over and over and over again I also really want to teach them how to get on student view I think I might cover that during home room today um so that they can um look at their grades student view and then that way um I can say okay I just graded your quiz or okay I just graded your boom cards you need to go check your score and see if there's any improvements you can make um I do love using boom cards as a grade it's a quick easy assessment of what they know and what they don't know and it's great because they can redo the decks as many times as they want so they can improve which is super helpful so I'm going to move this link up to the top I'm also going to add boom cards right to my google stream so that there's no question on how to get there hey you guys just wanted to do a quick check-in because I want to document all of the real and true teaching experience that we get to enjoy so it is my prep time but I have a student that's been assigned to ISS and so I'm going to spend my prep period walking assignments down to that student instead of prepping or grading or doing all the other things I need to do all right you guys it is lunch time and I've already had to confiscate a cell phone today um usually the first offense with that I just take it and keep it for the day and give it back before the kid leaves um but if it continues to happen then we do have to take them to the front office for parents to collect um which sucks but that is what it is um for lunch today I'm having tuna with mayo and relish it looks like a dinosaur I am dipping some corn chips in it corn chips are my carb I guess um yeah um trying to get hydrated I finished my liquid ivy which wasn't part of my gallon for the day so I am a little bit behind but I have faith in myself I think I'll be able to finish I'm very tired already not like physically tired but like mentally tired all right so I can't believe I'm actually doing this but I'm ending a vlog on the same day that I started a vlog um I feel like my vlogs are all starting to kind of like sound the same and look the same like here I am getting ready for the morning here I am getting this lab ready I just feel like everything I'm doing is so repetitive but um you know that's kind of the way things are right now so I'm trying to get creative in thinking about what I want to um film for you guys I would like to make my vlogs a little bit more exciting I think that would be I think that would be nice um so I think I might start vlogging a little bit more than just at school I don't know we'll see um anyways today was a good day we got a lot done we didn't even get totally through the anchor lesson of mystery science which is kind of like the beginning part um we did not get through that but it's okay because we're just starting with mystery science and it does take a while to kind of learn the routines and get used to everything and how it works so it'll be fine we'll continue with it tomorrow and then everything will just start to flow so um I'm gonna get out of here pretty quickly um I just need to do a couple of little chores here and there and then I'm gonna be out of here so thank you guys so so much for watching um don't forget don't forget to click that subscribe button and like this video it really helps me out and uh follow me on instagram and I will see you all in the next video bye guys